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Best Leadership Books of 2013

Leading Blog

The list below represents my picks for the best leadership books of 2013. * * *. The Myths of Creativity : The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas by David Burkus Creativity is not as divinely-inspired, unpredictable and random a gift as we tend to think it is. Are the people around you flourishing?

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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. For instance, a business wants to expand its social media marketing. This past February Yahoo!’s was changing its telecommute policy.

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Is 8 Hours Of Work Per Week Ideal For Our Health And Wellbeing?

The Horizons Tracker

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. As labor market reforms have come and gone in the meantime, the general length of the working day has stubbornly endured.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How to Stress-Test Your Strategy. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy'

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. As difficult, stressful, and crazy as Englishnization has been, it has been the right move for Rakuten. Would you communicate with your compliance department that way?

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The Magnetic Art of Attracting Business

Coaching Tip

This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type can use to attract new customers. If word-of-mouth is so vital to the success of a business, why are so many dollars spent on marketing and advertising? Tosi on April 1, 2013. This is such a book!